A gradual refinement The steel rail is an artifact whose form has been carefully optimized. This gradual refinement of the design was done not by a single brilliant engineer but by more than a century of industrial evolution. The rail was never meant to be an object of beauty, but its cross section has all the elegance of fine typography. Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape elegancetypographytransportationevolutionchange
A small team of committed coworkers The innovative designer also likes, perhaps needs, to work with a small team of committed co-workers who share the same passions and dedication. Nigel Cross & Anita Clayburn Cross, Winning by Design: The Methods of Gordon Murray On Talent teamwork